Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Teenage video game players have brains 'like gambling addicts'

Teenagers who spend hours playing video games may have a similar brain structure to gambling addicts, research suggests.
In a study of 14-year-olds, those who played frequently had a larger ‘reward centre’ in their brains than those who played less often.
Brain scans showed those who played for more than nine hours a week produced more of the ‘feel-good’ chemical dopamine.  Read more:

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